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The Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire Reprint Edition
Author(s): John Marx (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: October 1, 2009
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 236 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521120810
- ISBN-13: 9780521120814
Book Description
John Marx argues that the early twentieth century was a key moment in the emergence of modern globalization, rather than simply a period of British imperial decline. Modernist fiction was actively engaged in this transformation of society on an international scale. The very stylistic abstraction that seemed to remove modernism from social reality, in fact internationalized the English language. Rather than mapping the decline of Empire, modernists such as Conrad and Woolf celebrated the shared culture of the English language as more important than the waning imperial structures of Britain.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“John Marx’s The Modernist Novel and the Decline of Empire Reprint Edition makes an important contribution to the transnational turn to modernist studies; it is also well-positioned to become a significant sourcebook for studies of literary globalization in the decades following high modernism.” — Novel: A Forum on Fiction
“John Marx reinterprets imperial decline as a moment in which a new understanding of market forces pervaded artistic production…. Professionalism and imperialism go hand-in-hand, as in accounts of the rise of bureaucracy in the colonies, and John Marx’s achievement is to add modernism to the mix.” —
Journal of Modern LiteratureBook Description
This book argues that Modernist novelists played an active part in the development of globalization rather than charting the decline of the Empire.
